Thursday, July 18, 2013

Training..uh, weeks?


This link-up is just a way to talk about training [in any way, for anything] to help hold ourselves accountable and possibly brag a bit. I mean, you ran 1 mile without stopping – you totally deserve a chance to brag about it! That shit is hard. You did 10 push-ups in a row, HOLLLEERRR.


I’ve been a little MIA lately. Like, no new posts in nearly a month. Oops.

I needed a break, or rather, I needed to not feel like I was tied down to having to write something when I didn’t exactly feel like it. Huge thanks to Abbey who kept Training Tuesday alive even while I was off in La-La Land.

My Training

It’s been three weeks, but I don’t really have anything new to report. I haven’t exactly felt like training lately – I’ve been focusing a lot of my time on spending & enjoying my family, so exercise has fallen through the cracks. I’m still running sporadically (Clueless reference, anyone?) but am definitely not hitting the gym 5 days a week like I was at one point.

I think the heat has been part of my lack of motivation and the fact that I’m enjoying sleeping in, or reading a book on my lunch break, or not sweating at 8pm. I refuse to work out while Lillie is awake, my time during the workweek is limited with her – an hour before work, and three hours if I’m lucky before she hits the sack – and I am not willing to cut into it. 

Although, I will say she does love to run. We “race” a lot in the hallway of the house & the backyard. I’m not very competitive, but my husband is and I think she may have gotten that from him. So, hopefully at some point running won’t take time away from her but add to it. Fingers crossed.

I do have a 5k this weekend. Yay!

Except it’s July in Texas and hot as fuck. I ran this one last year and it was a horrible, horrible experience. I didn’t hydrate enough and I was a little over confident in my abilities to run in the heat (which was stupid considering I had only ever ran on a treadmill at that point. Sigh.) Lessons learned, so this year my goal is to finish feeling well and with a better time than last year.

And to, you know, not poop myself.

I probably worry about that far more than I should. Or maybe I worry about it just the right amount? I don’t know.

Runner friends, am I alone in this? Totally a legit fear, right?

4 comments:

Sara said...

I've missed reading your posts, but I totally understand needing a break!

My training has kind of been...well...non existant the past few weeks. I've been enjoying nights with my family, so, that has taken priority lately.

Good luck with the 5K this weekend! I have faith that you will not poop yourself! And if you do, I hope it's just a little poop....lol... Good luck girl!

Amanda said...

TOTALLY legit. I've had many a bathroom emergency. Not cool. Good luck this weekend!

Amanda Arr said...

I was so happy to see your post in my Bloglovin' feed. I know what you mean about feeling like you have to blog, I took almost a month off, too, because I was stressed out about Ragnar...welcome back!

Kaitlin said...

I have basically given up training at the moment, it is too damn hot. I'm hoping that once this heat wave is over I can get back out for at least a few short runs!!